Diagnosis and surgical treatment of functional obstruction of the right dorsal colon in a horse
Andrews, F.M.; Robertson, J.T.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 193(8): 956-958
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488 PMID: 3192479 Document Number: 314833
Functional obstruction of the right dorsal colon was found at surgery in a 6-year-old American Saddlebred gelding with a history of anorexia, depression, weight loss, and intermittent colic. Side-to-side anastomosis of the right dorsal colon to the small colon was done to bypass the obstruction. Histopathologic findings of the right dorsal colon and regional colonic lymph nodes were unremarkable. Surgical treatment was successful.